Stolen Website?
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- Machuse
Designer buys domain for med/lrg restaurant
Designer is replaced by new designer
Domain expires with GoDaddy
Glitch occurs and the domain is never parked (notifying of expired status)
Godaddy sells domain to 3rd party
(This is where it gets funny) - somehow the 3rd party grabbed all the pages and flash content for the site, and pointed the mail servers back to the old godaddy stuff. - No one notices until 2 months later when he changes the mx recordsAdvice?Guy seems to be in russia which could cause issues with jurisdiction.
- Machuse0
clarification: 3rd party seems to be in Russia
Original Designer said he renewed the domain, had nothing to do with me...new designer
- mistermik0
change restaurant name - it would be quicker.
Not sure how they managed to get files though.- someone has done that when I let addedsugar.com expire. Still has my name in the html.AbuseTheSystem
- dearhead0
sounds like your SOL.
- Machuse0
awesome. I just need to know the best advice to offer the restaurant, its not my fault and technically if they took better pride in their web site they wouldn't have this problem.
Just trying to be as helpful as I can; and just get some opinions on things
- sounds like you're really in a jam, especially since he's in russia. start a new domain.sputnik2
- anxiousarms0
get a new domain and host. start anew.
just had to do this for my own client. old designer registered domain and host for my client. years later my client asks me to do a new design/take over web mastering. a year later their site and ftp access disappears and old designer isn't answering phone calls.
i just started fresh with a better domain and hosting that i control. but this time i made sure my client know EVERY detail about the ownership of the domain and hosting plan. that's the best you can do for your client. help them understand what they are dealing with.
- SlashPeckham0
u are fucked - email the russian dude and make him an offer... but really u are fucked
sorry
- Machuse0
lol Slash that made me laugh.
Yea, thats what it seems like
- mimeartist_com0
I finally got the plank who duplicated my site, but didn't change any of the copy to take it down... I had to pretend that I was after some design work for him to reply to my messages
- sikma0
make him a very low one time offer and stress the fact that you really don't care starting up a new domain. he will take it.